Antiques Roadshow UK Series 14 Episode 12 Rochdale, Greater Manchester

Robinson Crusoe was written in the 18th century and he was inspired not some object ever since and do you have an idea as to what it might be used for well we wondered whether it was something matches in the back well it might be the matches and the other possibility of occurs to me is that it might be per tooth picks as well but I think it might be a little bit early come action it's French and it has a little mark on the back here and this is a mark that was used for things produced in France to be exported between 1840 and 1879 so one can date it within those 40 years approximately and it also has underneath the sort of essays scrape mark and this is whether you took out a little piece of silver out to test it and these French marks are mostly designed to expect taxes from people so if you re imported into Pfizer headquarters more hairs head on there the tax had been paid but I think it's a delightful object do right today I've no idea no idea at all when it's such an unusual thing and it's so nice and I think that this might very well be worth 500 pounds so much it's a very pretty little people steak or a dressing table purposes or for a writing-desk purposes yes with the taper in it it's very pretty how long you have it far take yeah sure now you know it's Worcester of course yeah it should be marked detective Chamberlain's Worcester and the data's came to be somewhere I suppose sort of 1885 that's quite early and the pattern is a very very attractive one of a Japan pattern called from an finger or finger and thumb wherever you like to put it illumise looks as though somebody's put their big during their thumb down on the edges Seward go and the rest of it decorated with lovely of Maori families and I think it's rather charming how much did you pay for it for 60 pounds 60 pounds it's antique shop or well no in a fort affair well one thing about it is that there's some damage to it did you know that at the time well I was aware there was a minor damage but a hair crack possibly what in the in the bottom there yes this little mark is a little came there well if I wasn't a man actually this there's been an area which has been filled up and then the restorer has sprayed it over with the body now over the years this varnish tends to target across governments and that whole area over the sea is different to that because it's begun to discover and camouflage despite a considerable area what's difficult pride to know just how much repair there is yes but also I don't whether you realize this at the time the whole temple has been made up the handle is quite restored as well it's a new handle virtually very very well done been done by a superb repair oh so it is someone that knowledged but you I suppose now if that little chamber candlestick were perfect one will be thinking in line of near pushing on towards 800 pounds no it is just a rare of a very very pretty little job but even restored like that and well restored it is it's still going to be somewhere in the reason about 200-250 powers not just about things yeah but it's as well watch these things we can to eat make carefully to things to see if they have been restored a medicine chest is it yes okay did you have a professional ancestor yes my uncle was there a doctor right we have a look inside him yeah mm-hmm this is a rose worth box which has France in there yeah of a type that you'd expect from the 1840s or there are buyers looking for bottles inside it seems that their gods later in conscription they're all sorts of pills in their bike pills cream bills and those are normally a latest sign the PEMDAS perhaps would have been contained in these bottles and typically what you'll find in these cabinets if they're not give us by a professional is thingies for the bowl able to stop you a port of empty one depending on which way okay yeah and the other things that you get a so-called uppers and downers these are antidepressants and things like opioids as who've been denied and chemicals like this in these boxes now as far as value goes on on these they're not the original chemicals in here which will make a slight difference to the value but all the bottles seem to be very complete I suspect if this went to auction it would make between 400 and 600 pounds I think it would dare I ask I mean do you own a pair of the user oh no I don't know whether there was a pair really aborted from our house fairly in Rochdale about seven years ago I mean let's just look at the pot itself nice big strong ovoid shape with this nice sort of turnover turnover ring but the decoration is built up using this sort of to blind technique now more crop used it and Minton used it but I've had a sneaky look underneath this I have to I have to confess that I've never come across Cranston where before how do you know nope I never made I know it's made at the pearl pottery down in stoke-on-trent and I'm looking at the style I would suggest it probably dates some round about 1915 or 1920 and this the tube line is that is it metallic no no no it's actually that's that's a pot let's flip it's like a it's but it's put on almost like icing a cake or anything no no at all it's all it's all pot I think it's a very noble pot and all I can say it I mean I'm how can I value a pot that I've never I mean it all can go office clarity clarity got reaction but I would suggest that if you got it for less than say 200 or 250 pounds you'd be doing very well oh yeah well we did pay for partner Oh what's all right well then you know at the end of the day it's goodbye well it looks like a jury nice English silver pair case watch it been in the family for a while or not well it's been in the family a long time but it was handed down to my husband from his godmother and it belonged to her father we've had it about six years back six years and the reason I ask is because in place of numerals on this town we have the name Thomas Baldwin is he invented with the family or not I don't know if I don't know of any Thomas Foley no James it's always rather nice to have a name in place of numerals because then we can perhaps do a little bit of research on it let's open it up my call to the pair case because it has a pair of cases an inner and an outer case let's just flip open the front bezel and look a little bit more at dial to be honest there's one or two little cracks and chips but despite that I see we've got a man-of-war there not a great naval man to be honest but I would suggest that that's probably a frigate and let's have a look inside the watch have you ever had it open or not well I've not the husband may have but I've never seen inside oh that is really rather rather unusual I see as it's signed by James Gregory of Ormskirk number two so this is really the second watch that this man may well that's interesting and we are very fortunate this is enormous Curtis Gables this is a double wheeled escapement rather like a chart cutter and was really used up here by what comparatively local makers it's almost about what 20 25 miles from here I suppose yes that's slightly more I just thought North Liverpool's sources let's just pop that down for a minute and examine the hallmarks there we are we've got a fabulous set of five hallmarks there Chester assayed which is exactly what you'd expect for an almost group watching and a big capital S I would suggest 1793 on that see from from a watch collectors point of view this is a lovely lovely thing that's great yes and all that remains for me to say is you obviously don't really have so she ate a lot of value with it no really but it may be worth a little but no idea really well bearing in mind that we've got the cracks on the dial yeah and it could do with a jolly good clean how about at auction between say nine and twelve hundred pounds laughing so will these machines that you were using yourself in your in your position in within the textile business and I've seen some of these before I mean this is I mean I call it a a swift is that what you call it that is real and that you you spin it round don't you and you actually put the yes not only have you got something here that is historically interesting and I think from a social history point of view it's interesting but I think also financially it will be interesting when already what you have here is going to be worth several hundred pounds perhaps as much as a thousand pounds and as more and more of these get scrapped you're going to find that that what you have is is even more valuable yes don't they have been later than perhaps they should be what 1820 they're probably a teenager oh yes yeah yeah when outrageous is dressed in the well yes painted in flame but it can be in the 1820s painting would be absolutely fantastic if you have a promise and the painting is sort of halfway there but their prey hey smart this immediately says to me in Jericho was somewhere someone very close to Jericho it's a study done very freely with pen and ink and then painted in over-the-top with Peter typical Jericho technique [Music] and subject is very much monetary case if you think about the figures in his one painting the raft of the Medusa [Music] you get some of the feel of that coming through in this study but I'm afraid having said that one is a very very long way from actually establishing and this is by Jerry okay it could of course be by a number of painters in working in France in the First's of 15 or 20 years of the 19th century so what we need to do is really follow it up a bit check possibly the reference to the north quickly in the North Park sale which we can do and then see if we can't pin it down a little bit further I don't I didn't want to get you at all over excited because it may turn out to be just a French academic study of the early part of my research in which case its worst about four or five hundred pounds yes if on the other hand it's very good yes I think you should prepare yourself for a shock and possibly getting them sold for something like fifty thousand pounds that's a long way off yes well very stylish very stylish at MIT yeah I mean with fairly accurate dating really with all these features on to 1830 1835 at the latest I mean I love this sort of nulling this heavy border which gives a slightly late date to it whereas the if you go right down to the feet straightaway we run a well-formed animal foot like a lion's poor foot and then you've got a nice thin ankle gradually tapering up into a good support for this parmitt formalized parmitt entablature here which is very much sort of 1820 so you you know that that's how we tend to put the dates together by assuming or assimilating all the different features and the other thing is of course that you've got this marvelous choice of timber for the veneers running all through the drawers so you've got this really quite lively front I mean all this is great moving look how this is open that it's captain it's a sheet of linear captain opened up like a butterfly's wing but basically because it's a dressing table all writing table one of a pen and the other one would have had huge holes have to take the base and then the Jags but it would have looked exactly like this and then this one went the other side of the room usually used for gentleman's apartments there with drawing room when he would withdraw and see to his toilet and clothes whatever sort of bed set really very smart bed sit furniture but of course now ideally suitable for downstairs apartment and I think the only thing that's happened to it is that these boarders these galleries at the back we're always torn up this is the original bit you see any would have come up here right there you see today I followed up about there and then gone round of different height it's a super thing lovely bit of furniture if it's difficult to say precisely where it came from but I mean it's origins but as I say it certainly looks like a northern counties quality one and could easily be gillers unfortunately we don't have any proof of that is it is it something you bought recent I have bought it fairly recently about four years ago right well I don't think the markets changed much in four years in as much as you know there is a recession or has been a recession nevertheless some things have continued to rise others simply have stayed where they are the markets remain static today it would cost you three thousand pounds to buy another one how much did you pay for canals 2500 did you yeah oh well that's bad very good very appropriate nature brought into this Marla's medieval revival hall piece of medieval revive this silver now you have a plain circular plate which is hammered you can see the hammer marks just in the yeah a nice little piece of embossing in the center nice red enamel boss yeah that red enamel boss would have been enameled on cover then inserted and set now if we turn their dish up like this we can see very strong strap work yeah the reverse of the embossing and if you turn it this way we have the bottom of the trumpet foot bearing the legend yes Omar ends them and woman in the car may Faye current that means all Omar ends and all in car made me Ramzan and car are probably the most popular early 20th century silversmiths who worked in partnership Ramson was born in Sheffield he came home to London in about 1900 1899 and he worked in partnership Gorman car until 1919 they developed a medieval Revival style that is terribly easy to recognize and I think that's why his work has become so popular have you had a very long 1950s and 1960s II I see did it cost very much more does it cost me 10 pounds well I think he might be interested now that if he wanted to sell it today and it went into a personal to a dealer who were understood Omar answer we're probably fetch today in the original 450 to 500 pounds was bearing after that's a great investment exhausting yes I believe this to be an illustration to Walter Scott's poem the Lady of the lake which shows King James who spotted the fair maiden on the shore and Rose her across to the island of element on day Katrine it's by Jay Lamont Brodie and the signature here is in the bottom there from its dated 1858 now how did you come to get the painting video did you buy it or did you inherit it no I went to a fun play house sale and they were practically throwing them away about 40 years ago and what kind of price did you pay for five pounds I think it was the good old days yeah those are the good yes now I don't know whether in fact this it's not a sketch for painting but it would be quite nice to think that actually he produced a larger version of the subject but at this particular moment we can't really we can't really tell I think there's some particular details the lady that they care with the dear hand and I believe it is a dear huh yeah and also I think that this particular the way that this plaid trails and the water and picks up the spray from the from the surface of waters is as well it's very well painted and here brilliant quite heavy paint here the all dripping with water she falls back in years and stood in there now as for fan you I don't think it's a great debatable painting well I would imagine possibly something in the region of about a thousand to fifteen hundred pounds but it seems quite fairy oh yeah yes really I've enjoyed it anyway for 40 years so that's the main thing yes exactly and so it's getting back on the walls when you take it out that's right yeah well now we leave the people of Rochdale and our experts just for a moment for me to tell you about the Radio Times competition and to remind you for the last time in this series that you stand a chance of winning a voucher to the value of two and a half thousand pounds which you can then spend on antiques of your choice first however the answer to last week's question we asked you to name the decorative technique used on this 18th century bodkin case and the answer is Verna mountain named after the mountain brothers of Paris who in the 18th century developed the technique of Japan to imitate oriental lacquer so to this week's objects the last one in the series and here it is this rather strange Georgian chair with its arched upholstered hood now I can tell you that it's extremely comfortable to sit in its are padded all around the sides and there's plenty of room for a chap like me underneath you can see there's this cupboard which could also be locked so you could keep the contents inside safe the chair is mounted on four casters so it can easily be moved around now this chair was designed and made in the 18th century with a particular purpose in mind from which it gets its name and that leads me directly to the question what is this kind of chair called now to help you it's a good idea to look at a copy of next week's Radio Times which gives you more details of the competition itself and even goes so far as to suggest a few possible answers so you can really take your pick and then your entry needs to be postmarked please before next Saturday and addressed to the Radio Times rather than to the Antiques Roadshow and the answer because this is the last program of the series will be in the Radio Times in two weeks from now so good luck with that and now back to our experts and the people of Rocksteady I always find amazing to find so many images of Napoleon in British in British households I mean could you believe that the the Duke of Wellington in absolute house has a more than life-size model of his archenemy in the entrance hall so it's really weird this British fascination with their with their home well I mean at that stage with you know we'd seen him off so there was nothing to worry about but the object itself is carved out of out of alabaster which a little bit it's a little bit softer than marble the actually if you were to sort of scratch it you could actually you know you can it's very soft as a material well at first glance he has the appearance of being modeled but anyway I think it may well have been carved in Italy it may well have been carved in Italy I see the swords a little bit of a knock having said that I don't think it's going to obtain the price too much I'm not 100% what the going rate is for a Napoleon and this size but I would have thought that you'd be looking at least one and a half thousand pounds for a figure of that size today but to go over fifty years and know that when we use I mean I think they're dating about 1920 and he's probably made by a company called Herman not to start a terminus another German company [Music] just even the pads on I would have a lovely wedding he has and even though he's not vice time but I still think it'd be worth three hundred thousand he's really cracking no I think certainly certainly worth it laughter is the most important thing really is that you don't have him out so that he fades he's already a bit of a turd yes oh yeah we do business out there on the bed yeah well I mean it's sad but you really should be keeping you out of the light of the light and awakened [Music] and children [Music] [Music] there's always a tremendous amount of snobbery and unreasonable prejudice that has leveled against Birmingham made guns in favor of their London counterparts but the piece you brought today really shows that this is totally unfounded this is a an English flintlock sporting gun of about 1825 1830 very highest quality made by William Ryan son who at this time were in U Street in in Birmingham oh another reason as to how you came by it because it's rare that you see a flintlock gun in this condition well I bought it as an auction some years ago should think about 10 or 12 years ago as soon as you paid for it I paid just over 600 pounds for it right you I think you bought very wisely it's mounted on the fore end and it's catching plates and silver normally their horn and certainly for to find a silver foreign tip is very rare I would think something like about wanting to and the barrel obviously what is really at the heart of the piece is made of the very best Damascus twist and you can see all these wonderful curls and swirls where it's been wound into ribbons and hammered and reed hammered and then hammered again and this is an absolutely fantastically put together lock it has all the little refinements that you would expect to find in a lot of this period for instance it has underneath there as a little roller that gets rid of the friction improves the time as the prison opens it has a very complicated priming counters in the form of a teaspoon and that means that if you're out on a slightly drizzly day the water will actually drip down the edges there and drop off the bottom rather than going into the priming and making your gun misfire and also the inside of the the pan is [Music] covered with a very thin layer of gold just to cut down on the the corrosion really this form of lock is about the apotheosis of the technology of the fluid lock you can't really improve this anymore and today in this sort of state you would be looking at 1250 or perhaps even 1500 carriers I guess it is such a nice quality piece and in such nice condition and they're very very sought-after but only by people who wish to collect them and hang them on the wall but also increasingly white people who used to shoot I busted my hero Enoch wood the father of the Potteries as he was known when you bought this long did you expect him to be received in this way did you know that he's important to the pottery industry I knew of his importance but I didn't actually think you'd get this welcome speaking in in Lockwood himself was really one of the great all-round characters a modeler Potter really master Potter as I just turn it round to show his name on the back tell me about what you know about the bust itself where did you get it from I was actually found in a house about 15 16 years ago and in the Attic put away just put away unloved the description tells us clearly that I recognized him anyway but there the bust of Enoch wood offers them age 60 to 80 1821 I mean a useful date he died in 1840 service was there much during his lifetime and would therefore probably be made by his pottery in Staffordshire and fully a self-portrait he modeled very fine dust he knows a model Buster Burton is like likely but he would have modelled this bust himself and very documentary in that way it didn't a white stone where yeah and originally would have been plain white when it left the pottery these are ceramic colors in glazes I suspect the painting was probably contemporary but then outside were normally used to seeing this and as a play-in white one but I think that sort of now HAP's looking a little bit tired but these are the character of the man comes through I'm not an easy being to value because the interest is not perhaps disturb us but in that the man himself that is important to the history of Motoring and therefore sorta to present-day enthusiast when sort of a lot of us regard and affect to him I would think that perhaps it could be worth five hundred pounds maybe to the right collector even up to eight hundred or thousand it's not easy to know well I can say that I have never actually seen this model before seen a Wellington chest and I've seen a Davenport and I've never seen a standing Devonport Wellington chest roaring runner and a centerpiece because he's meant to stand in this and yet this beautiful quality these are these reports are false drawers nevertheless this lovely collar a nice little scroll at the top gives us a good dating from that star or 1830 1835 perhaps mahogany throughout the original grille to the top and then you've got all sorts of bits and pieces anything for that yeah that's the original Morocco leather on there isn't it upon the other side for doing and then you've got a a writing thing here for your ink draw as well as around so now you understand and this is a family well yes it came from my grandfather's office he was an architect in the town oh right right extremely good and of course the thing about it is or the nice surprise is that when you turn it new o'clock you've got these real drawers so you got six shallow drawers which are central did not buy that column which opens up you said you've got the whole lot the extraordinary thing is at the Wellington chest so it comes from the Duke of Wellington suppose I devised one of these with military campaign in fact I think he pinched the idea from the French who had the sort of seminary chest which had seven little drawers I'm cleaning and breach each day of the week yeah I think that this type of form has been given his name since he introduced it but I think what I like about it is the wonderful color everywhere this is absolutely superb we never been touched I've never been cleaned or mended or broken or if it's an absolutely stunning original conditioner the more I love that you know the more more it grows on you really I mean it's such a good piece of furniture it's in it's in important things it's a job to put a value on that one can only I can only say what I think that I would be prepared to to value intact I should think today four and a half five and a half thousand pounds would be it's actually a very nice toy car it's made by a company called Laila you can see the name here it was made in Germany roundabout 1905 the company laymen are best known for their novelty toys those are toys that perhaps depict funny situations or people from real life rather than sort of models of cars they were much much amazing and I think this one if we wanted to DT it's working in the steering wheel researches about and it's called toot-toot underneath there's a bellows and originally that would have made a little drama go do yeah it's great and this company Leyland is really very highly thought about by collectors today and you said that it cost originally how much [Music] you know with around 800 pounds so where'd you keep well it's probably why I survived in such good condition an hour when they should be done but the painting it looks very pretty looks very nice additional mice and style but done hundred years later as a piece of painting on an old white plate interesting I suppose it's probably worth hundred pounds but would have been far more matted painting was protected with lead to place yes even with the one chin that's not too soon as that can be restored about thing well I am pleased you brought this in because it's by a local Lancashire artists and not just a local anchor are displacing almost one of the best of the Lancashire artists of the late nineteenth century they review painters the landscape painters he's William Edward Webb signature up here and he was based in Manchester and they much say very much sir and actually traveled widely I suppose you could say in that he went to the Isle of Man and painted quite a lot in the arm and we did actually see one in the Isle of Man we took the family on a rainy day holiday in to Douglas museum and there was another painting by really well yes that's interesting that he painted the Isle of Man a lot and all these local places like here we've got Fleetwood which is of course on the case black John a nice little thing it's one of the best I've seen by do I enjoy it it could not just because like you say it's a complaint but I like the picture it found it very pleasing well it is pleasing it's gone he's a miss very much very good at Harbour series he was very good at these high mastered boats against key sides is it family picture yes I belong to my great-uncle he was very keen on collecting paintings one or two of his came through my mother and eventually to me yes and where did he live locally in Burnley and then they went to black people probably in a matter for yourself when they bloom because it's another instance of what Lancashire people at the end of the last century did so well which was patronized their own local artists very very supportive Lee and Webb I think that a lot of local passionate as well but that we are a jolly nice thing I hope you've got an inshore okay yes separately yes we have them no they are in the judge yeah because I suppose this is you should probably cover for about two thousand pounds isn't he gorgeous happy puppy is been within a little blob on the top of his head and he's clutching for group death his fruit I suppose it's a breadfruit or something like that would you see the whole shape of the monkey he's a tea pot a tea pot of absolutely glorious humorous or I think he's lovely I did I I think it was funny is happiest Deepak I've ever seen he's been fine Bentham and 1872 take care is in the bottom of it so so he's been a long time in existence Odie back turned that fruit at what's its history it we got it from the mother-in-law and we just believe they came to him through her family and all the young children have played two parties within them he's been used as part of the tea party seriousness he survived he's had just a little bit of damage to his spout here just a couple of little digs but his aide I think is absolutely as right as rain he's a portly called majolica colors a great praise to make these particular colors we've seen a lot of pieces on the roadshow Punjabi Catholic I don't think anything quite so humorously body as I love it very large indeed now you can super early idea what is well well they have been slightly higher in price recently that they come to this year early the topical wear has just settled a bit there was one so a short while ago for over a thousand pounds but the places I need that property with too and with the chips I would think probably you might think in terms of about 700 750 pounds so if you guard go to use it for TV be very careful perhaps don't be too careful enjoyable of it but I think he's wonderful wow that's a pretty fantastic object yeah I think that is quite the biggest invest and there's wonderful record I've ever seen in my 35 years have a look at America [Music] and how did this how did this get into your family it was given to my husband it's a baby well this is really a most exceptional piece personally it's an 18 karat gold which is very very rare you only get maybe I don't know one battle in 2000 because these are quite commonly given to children well I'm gonna see one of like it I've seen so many many many silver armies and they were mostly made from about 1750 to about 1900 every a hygienic but a gold wire is very very uncommon and this one was made in 1860 by some London dismiss Col William Rawlins with salmon and salmon and it's most beautifully improved very very heavy in size and a wonderful piece of coal and I think this piece of coral alone is probably worth about 500 pounds really then I'm just almost speechless with wonder they've about everything that's a good one still a part of a pair for me well it lives in its box yes it lives in its box we haven't got any sure and no knots not individual they know and you never saw a really thought about it not really not to be honest sir well would it would it surprise you to know that I would take a bit the trade value of something like this is somewhere between seven and ten thousand pounds I don't think there's any doubt that it is just wonderful my day and so we end our visit to Rochdale really where we began with the town's most famous daughter Gracie fields throughout our day here we've seen just so many mementos of her career as Britain's most popular entertainer for instance these mugs and jugs playing some of her favorite songs here of course a reminder that she had national honours to the insignia of Dame of the British Empire here one of her many signed portraits kept in a special presentation case and literally thousands of houses all over the borough would have had that on their mantelpiece over here one of her gold discs remember she made more than 500 records during her career and among them the top hits of the day and here a reminder of the fact that she was honored by the Bera to the keys of Rochdale well so we come to the end I'm afraid not only of this visit to Lancashire but also the current series of the Antiques Roadshow and I really must thank sincerely all the hundreds indeed thousands of people in towns and cities all over Britain where we've been who've helped to make these programs such a great success we simply of course couldn't have done it without them we are now making preparations for another series of the Antiques Roadshow next year so until we meet again on the road from all of us in Rochdale good bye [Music] are the Antiques Roadshow regrets that it cannot give any valuations by post but the slant x-rays show collection magazine and the DBC book based on the series [Music]

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Keywords: Antiques Roadshow, Antiques Roadshow UK, Antiques Roadshow Series 14, Antiques Roadshow 1992, VHS, VHS 50fps, 50fps, BBC, BBC 1, BBC 1 1992, Rochdale, Manchester, Greater Manchester, Gracie Fields, Silver tazza, monkey-shaped teapot

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Length: 40min 41sec (2441 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 14 2018